04/03/2024
Mactan International Airport in the Philippines is Asia’s first airport to have a roof structure made entirely of glulam. In the course of the expansion of the second largest airport in the Philippines – for which a new 65,000-m² terminal has been built for international flights to 23 destinations – its annual capacity was more than doubled to 12 million passengers. Design, ecological and traditional reasons all led the choice to fall on the most sustainable of all building materials, wood.
Source: https://www.rubner.com/en/references/timber-construction/mactan-international-airport/
